Cellar vacate orders and neighborhood air-quality complaints mark the recent record.
A 10-unit Upper West Side walk-up where cellar spaces triggered partial vacate orders in late 2024. While upper residential apartments remain occupied, enforcement focuses on illegal living quarters below grade. Three things to know:
Inspectors ordered two cellar spaces vacated in late 2024. Inspectors issued vacate orders for cellar rooms N1 and N2 in late 2024, citing unpermitted plumbing, illegal duplex modifications, and living space created in the cellar. Orders required disconnecting showers, toilets, and sealing pipe connections.
Surrounding blocks log active air-quality and food-venting complaints. Within three blocks, residents filed 40 food-establishment calls and 30 indoor-air-quality calls over the past year. Kitchen exhaust, cooking odors, and chemical fumes frequently travel through shared risers or light wells in these historic brownstone blocks.
Unbinned trash handling triggered repeat pest calls in spring 2025. Three rodent calls and three disposal complaints were logged in spring 2025. The filings specifically flag unbinned trash attracting pests near the building line.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
159 West 73rd Street is a 10-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1011450010). This building is associated with Nanaco NY LLC. Brix tracks 6 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1882, this walk-up apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 18 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about heat/hot water.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed February 22, 2025.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on May 29, 2009 for $3,703,333, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 21/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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Unit 1R at 159 West 73rd Street has 1 open violation.
Unit 4R at 159 West 73rd Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
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